The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today concerning the Trump administration’s rollback of Obamacare rules requiring employers to provide free birth control coverage for employees.
Absurd that in 2020, during a global public health crisis, we are still fighting before SCOTUS to prevent employers from denying access to contraception.
Contraception is critical to our health, economic security & bodily autonomy. Period. #HandsOffMyBC https://t.co/L4NmZmxnLq
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) May 6, 2020
The horror of expecting women to have enough bodily autonomy to pay for their own birth control! Actor Bradley Whitford, who was on “The West Wing” and is therefore a policy expert, for one, can’t believe we’re even debating this:
Five conservative male Supreme Court justices are about to decide whether or not all you women out there should have access to birth control.
So, you know, Under His ?.— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) May 6, 2020
We’re living in the Handmaid’s Tale, people.
— Mel Sivas (@MelSivas) May 6, 2020
— Fulana de Tal (@fahrenheit451_2) May 6, 2020
— Christine C. Berger (@drchristine) May 6, 2020
— OUFENIX (D) ? (@oufenix) May 6, 2020
— The Resistor Sister ♥️??? (@the_resistor) May 6, 2020
Where to begin? Well, for starters, this is not about denying “all you women out there” access to birth control. These arguments are about employer-sponsored birth control coverage. So nice try, Bradley. Good effort.
We also applaud Bradley’s bold attempt to shame male Supreme Court Justices for being male (and, in some cases, conservative) for hearing the arguments. Seeing as, well …
Wasn't Roe v Wade decided entirely by male justices? https://t.co/JQMvw3c8Pu
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 6, 2020
It was indeed.
Recognize these guys? pic.twitter.com/uT8Uhon3Q8
— China is lying (@jtLOL) May 6, 2020
That’s a lotta testosterone, Bradley.
On average, men are about the same if not slightly more liberal than women are when it comes to abortion (which includes…Bradley Whitford) https://t.co/AbuqXWPauJ
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 6, 2020
Awkward.
And is this critique saying things would be OK if instead of Kavanaugh, Trump had nominated, say, Amy Barrett or Edith Jones?
— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) May 6, 2020
Of course not. Fortunately, Bradley doesn’t have to make that critique — at least not yet — so he can keep his preferred narrative alive.
